IN THE COURTYARD

Screening room

Status: Completed

Director(s): Pierre Salvadori

Short synopsis : A taciturn caretaker (Gustave Kervern) and an anxiety-stricken resident (Catherine Deneuve) form an awkward, touching friendship that might just save them from madness.

Long synopsis : 40-year-old musician Antoine suddenly decides to end his career. After several
days’ aimless wandering, he is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building
in Paris.
Mathilde is a recently retired resident, generous-spirited and deeply involved with
the management company of the building.
After she discovers a crack in her living room wall, her worry gradually turns to
panic - what if the building were to collapse?
Slowly, Antoine develops a fondness for this woman he is afraid will slip into
madness.
Through a confusion of misfires and anxiety, the two develop an awkward
friendship, funny yet solid, which might just get them through this difficult patch...